South Carolina's 8th congressional district

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The 8th Congressional District of South Carolina was a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in South Carolina. It was created in 1803 as a result of the 1800 Census and eliminated in 1843 as a result of the 1840 Census. The district was last represented by Thomas De Lage Sumter.

[edit] Representatives

Name Took Office Left Office Party District Residence
John B. Earle 1803 1805 Democratic-Republican Anderson County
Elias Earle 1805 1807 Democratic-Republican Greenville
Lemuel J. Alston 1807 1811 Democratic-Republican Greenville
Elias Earle 1811 1813 Democratic-Republican Greenville
Samuel Farrow 1813 1815 Democratic-Republican Spartanburg
Thomas Moore 1815 1817 Democratic-Republican Spartanburg County
Wilson Nesbitt 1817 1819 Democratic-Republican Spartanburg
John McCreary 1819 1821 Democratic-Republican Chester
Joseph Gist 1821 1823 Democratic-Republican Pinckneyville
John Carter 1823 1829 Jacksonian Camden
James Blair 1829 1834(a) Jacksonian Lancaster County
Richard Irvine Manning I 1834(a) 1835 Jacksonian Columbia
James Rogers 1835 1837 Jacksonian Yorkville
John Peter Richardson II 1837 1839 Democrat Spartanburg
James Rogers 1839 1841 Democrat Yorkville
Thomas De Lage Sumter 1841 1843 Democrat Stateburg

(a) James Blair died in 1834; Manning succeeded him in a special election.

Source: Congressional Biographical Directory